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Thread ID: 135966	2014-01-04 07:21:00	kiwi jabber	lakewoodlady (103)	PC World Chat

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1364228	2014-01-04 07:21:00	Is it just me, or do others have a problem trying to actually understand what annoucers are saying? I tried to watch a program about horses on TV One tonight, and could hardly understand a word the person was saying.. The person's voice just seemed to be a lot of jabbering at a fast rate, and left me thinking "I had no idea what she talking about!" Also some of the News readers are difficult to understand. I imagine they are speaking some form of English, but rabbit on so quickly , hard to know what they are saying! It is also very noticable when some of the "younger generation" speak. (Perhaps I am just getting old ?) LL	lakewoodlady (103)
1364229	2014-01-04 09:21:00	It not you, some programs are really terrible.You only have to watch / listen to some of the older programs and they are fine. Watch programs where they speak real english and you'll hear and understand fine. Watching Natural Geographic - War Heroes of the skys -- All perfectly clear. As for news readers -- some need going back to learning to speak I think, "younger generation", a lot of them cant speak correctly any way, they may as well be speaking some language from another planet, its not English or any other real language that's for sure.	wainuitech (129)
1364230	2014-01-04 18:57:00	Are you of English origin? As in originally from the UK? I watched a doco on it once.....fairly old now. To the rest of the world all kiwis speak too fast and pronounce things badly. The older generations will notice it in younger ones more.....it's a national accent sort of thing. I had a Danish penpal once, when I spoke on the phone with him he always said we spoke too fast. They way we speak morphs......look at the US - compare that with England....and note the regional differences in the US> For that matter look at regional differences in the UK. In fact go back far enough with English and you had the same thing with Old English, Middle English and so on. There was a doco on that too - how English changed (back in history in England), the same complaints were made back then too, some not "speaking correctly" and so on....	pctek (84)
1364231	2014-01-04 19:34:00	I've never had an issue understanding a newsreader...	pcuser42 (130)
1364232	2014-01-04 20:31:00	I've never had an issue understanding a newsreader... Me neither. I can understand all of the announcers across channels 1,2 and 3 as well all the radio DJs across 91zm, the edge, the rock, George FM etc. I'm in the 40+ age bracket.	Webdevguy (17166)
1364233	2014-01-04 20:33:00	I am not from England myself, just a 3rd generation Kiwi like a lot of people. I think it is mostly the example given by parents, teachers etc that had a bearing on the way we spoke right from the start. I guess a lot don't seem to care now. Kiwi accents are pretty awful, but speaking more slowly does help a bit. LL :)	lakewoodlady (103)
1364234	2014-01-04 20:57:00	Kiwi accents are pretty awful, but speaking more slowly does help a bit. That's something I noticed about myself while selling tickets on Friday - I speak a tad too fast :p	pcuser42 (130)
1364235	2014-01-04 21:14:00	I've never had an issue understanding a newsreader... You probably don't watch or listen to the news.	Richard (739)
1364236	2014-01-04 21:17:00	You probably don't watch or listen to the news. I do so every night. If I didn't watch the news I wouldn't have made that post...	pcuser42 (130)
1364237	2014-01-04 21:49:00	Well I draw great comfort from finding I’m not the only who can’t understand some of them. :) And whilst on the subject of the News, does anybody else get sick to death of the numerous weather forecasts? I doubt anyone takes a blind bit of notice of their “in depth gobbledegook” which invariably seems to turn out to be wrong. :groan: Surely they are just padding out the news, not wishing to pay for another article of a bombing somewhere in the Middle East. :groan:	B.M. (505)
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